7 Reasons Your Blog Post Might Not Be Ready to Publish

7 Reasons Your Blog Post Might Not Be Ready to Publish

Whether you post once a week on your WordPress blog or daily, there is nothing more satisfying then pushing that ‘publish’ button and sending your words of wisdom out to your loyal readers. Formatting done? Check. Photos placed? Check. Ready to hit publish? Check—er, wait. Is there something you’ve overlooked? Is your post ready for [...]

WordPress SEO Plugins, Post Penguin

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Most people know that search engines are your best source of getting traffic to your site. With all the recent fuss over Google Penguin (an algorithm update), some bloggers are wondering if SEO still has a place on their blog. SEO, If done well,  has the benefit of being very reader friendly, so it’s still [...]

4 WordPress Freedoms: How Many Have You Claimed?

4 WordPress Freedoms: How Many Have You Claimed?

It’s Independence Day here where I am, on American soil. Beer, potato salad, strawberry shortcake and sparkling fireworks. It’s about freedom, man. Used in the right way, WordPress is all about freedom, too. The beauty of it is the control you have over your own blog—not only in the content, but in the design and [...]

10 Easy Fixes for Your WordPress Blog

10 Easy Fixes for Your WordPress Blog

Even the smallest things that happen in WordPress can suddenly become huge problems—if you don’t know how to fix them. Here they are, some tiny, some big. 1. Why is there a double return in my posts? When you are doing a post or page and hit return, it gives you a space between lines. [...]

Talk to the Hand: 7 Things You Don’t Want to Do with WordPress

7 Things Not To Do In WordPress

WordPress gives us so many features and options once we are in the dashboard. And if we add some widgets and a theme: presto, there’s even more. But no matter what you are using WordPress for—if you have one site or ten— there are features you might want to understand more clearly. When in WordPress, [...]

How to Use Keyword Research to Supercharge Your Blogging Strategy

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One of the hot topics of discussion over the years has been the use of keyword research on a blog. Should it used? How often? How extensive? For what reason? All of these are questions that have been long debated in the blogging community. Keyword research is, at its core, simply discovering what keyword or [...]

How To Poorly Dress Your SEO Blogsmas Tree

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If you don’t already have one up, more than likely you’ll soon be putting up your Christmas tree. [Disclaimer: Whether or not you celebrate or recognize the holiday, you know this time of year is commonly referred to as Christmas by many people and you know what a Christmas tree is and it's purpose and functionality. That's [...]

SEO: It’s Never Too Late to Optimise Your Old Blog Posts

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If you have been reading FBBB for some time the  chances are you know more about SEO now than you did when you first started blogging. Guaranteed Ways to Improve Your Blog’s SEO How To Create Both an SEO- and Reader-Friendly Post Title Overview of SEO Data Transporter Plug-in from StudioPress Why WordPress is Great [...]

Do You Need Keywords in Blog Posts?

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Yesterday I took part in a blogging Q&A session. One of the questions asked related to keywords - Do you need keywords in blog posts? I thought I would write a post about it as it’s something that comes up in conversation often, along with do you really blog every day? Where do you find the [...]